S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 8:
“Kinkurimba”
Featuring Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), Simone dos Santos Palmiera (BR), & Scott William Raby (DK/US)
“Kinkurimba”
Featuring Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), Simone dos Santos Palmiera (BR), & Scott William Raby (DK/US)
S for Sound, S for Solidarity - episode 8 “Kinkurimba” prototypes an artistic educational infrastructure that seeks to connect the regions of Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. The project emphasizes non-commercial, ecological, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts to put non-western and alternative approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy from Scandinavia. In doing so, the project seeks to collapse geography and highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure across borders.
In this eighth episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - the current Kinkurimba group unfolds their practices through a new sonic episode set across Congo, Zambia, Brazil, and Denmark. By combining monologues, speeches, and poetry readings mixed with fragments of the discursive event that launched the Kinkurimba project, the new episode highlights both current trajectories and the origins of the collective. Set to a context specific soundtrack including Zamrock and Kuyabile with lo-fi recordings of the natural settings where the group is located, the episode seeks to draw a rich portrait that serves as a sonic introduction to Kinkurimba.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Anawana Haloba, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA), Morten Poulsen, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping in the realization of this project.
In this eighth episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - the current Kinkurimba group unfolds their practices through a new sonic episode set across Congo, Zambia, Brazil, and Denmark. By combining monologues, speeches, and poetry readings mixed with fragments of the discursive event that launched the Kinkurimba project, the new episode highlights both current trajectories and the origins of the collective. Set to a context specific soundtrack including Zamrock and Kuyabile with lo-fi recordings of the natural settings where the group is located, the episode seeks to draw a rich portrait that serves as a sonic introduction to Kinkurimba.
A special thanks to Radio alHara, Anawana Haloba, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA), Morten Poulsen, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, and The Danish Institute in Rome for helping in the realization of this project.
Saturday, July 11th:
Broadcast Premiere from 7:00 - 8:00 pm (CEST)
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Listen here
Broadcast Premiere from 7:00 - 8:00 pm (CEST)
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Listen here
Kinkurimba is a socially-engaged pedagogical project that was initiated by Kabila Kyowa in collaboration with f.eks. and Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art in 2024. Now operating as a mostly online international collective, Kinkurimba was initially launched as a gathering at the library of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg as a “détournement” that included a cross-border exchange and a collectively designed “kinkurimba” poster as a public artwork. This episode features the voices of the current Kinkurimba collective members Kabila Kyowa Stephane (CD/BR), Luyando Muleya (ZM), Simone Dos Santos Palmiera (BR), Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage) (ZM), and Scott William Raby (DK/US) as well as many other special guests.